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Dunno what this means, but Elyos has more Clerics, Chanters, and Templars so far o.o;
Let's see... Asmodians have more Rangers, Assassins, and Spiritmasters? Could there really be an inbalance between the factions?
In WoW, because of the talent trees, most classes could adapt to two or three different roles. If there is a shortage of one class, there are always other classes that could take over. There's no specific "healing class" or "buffing class" or "tanking class". Besides, the faction versus faction warfare could never take permanent effects, unlike Aion, which has these fortresses and such that actually affect gameplay for everyone else.
In L2, it didn't matter what race you picked because there were no factions. Most races branched out to classes with similar abilities anyways, especially the melee classes. It didn't matter if one race had more of one type of class than another.
I'm worried because Aion combines the faction warfare of WoW with this fortress system similar to L2. The fortress system can allow one faction to completely dominate another because now PvP can drastically affect the status of the server. Suddenly, if the servers become inbalanced because the factions prefer different classes, how would NCsoft solve the problem? If, for example, Asmodians had too many DPS classes for healers, and Elyos had vice-versa. Would NCsoft buff the support on Asmodian side and buff the damage dealing of the Elyos to compensate? I can see this becoming a problem, but let's wait and see the poll results, and the feedback from the Korean beta testers.
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